DuPage County
One yard, two counties, two rows
The Bensenville yard is operated by Canadian Pacific and its recorded coordinate lies 0.83 miles from the village centroid, inside the place. It is Canadian Pacific’s principal Chicago-area classification yard.
We hold two rows under that name, 1.49 miles apart, same carrier, one in DuPage County and one in Cook County. On the county-split pattern that is not two yards. It is one yard with a county line drawn through it.
Sources: the city-pages node list and the FCC census area lookup, checked 2026-08-24.
A county line through a yard is a line through the rulebook
That split is not a filing curiosity. Illinois lets local authorities set weight limits lower than the state’s, so which side of the DuPage County and Cook County line a gate opens onto can decide what a loaded truck may legally do on the street outside it.
It also fixes the shape of the road work. A classification yard is where trains are taken apart and put back together, and the road half of that is drayage — short moves between the yard and a customer, several turns in a day. The 75 miles filed against the row is a slice-wide estimate and the honest number here is a great deal smaller. What actually moves through it we could not establish.
Drayage is stop-start with weight on. It shows in the brakes and the clutch first.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So day cabs and road tractors are the ordinary shape around Canadian Pacific’s principal Chicago-area yard, with box trucks and straight trucks on the warehouse side of a village that has a classification yard running through the middle of it in DuPage County. That is a read off the record, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.
Dump trucks, flatbeds, farm trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Bensenville included, and the offer is made the same way on any of them.
Most of the reasons people sell aren’t happy ones, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is fine.
Illinois law
What the state lets a truck carry
Those loads all run under one set of numbers, and the ceiling is the same on both sides of the line. Illinois statute 625 ILCS 5/15-111 sets 80,000 pounds gross for five or more axles, 20,000 pounds on a single axle and 34,000 pounds on a tandem, with no axle inside that tandem over 20,000 pounds, and a formula for consecutive axle groups that varies with spacing.
Local authorities and cities over 50,000 people may set their own weight limits by ordinance, but the same statute stops them exceeding the state maximums. So an Illinois local limit can only ever be lower than the state figure, never higher — which is something to check before you plan a route on the state number alone.
That section carries no seasonal frost provisions and no harvest or agricultural exemptions. That is scoped to that section of the statute and is not a claim that Illinois has no seasonal restriction anywhere, which we did not check.
Source: Illinois General Assembly, 625 ILCS 5/15-111. Checked 2026-08-23.
Questions we get asked
- Does it have to run?No. We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it — but a truck that doesn’t start and is otherwise all there is fine. A missing bumper is fine.
- What about the title?We need a title — unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If yours is lost, a replacement is an $18 counter transaction. If there has never been one, there is a bonded route. Those are the three cases people actually arrive with.
- Do you come out this far?Yes. Whether you’re alongside the yard or nowhere near it, we come to you. We buy across DuPage County, and in Wood Dale, Itasca and Franklin Park as well — getting to you is our problem, not yours.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup. That is the whole of it.